PNEUMOTHORAX FOLLOWING ELECTRICAL BURN INJURY: A CASE REPORT

Authors

  • Shashi Rekha Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Surgery, Sri Devarj Urs Medical College, Takama, Kolar Karnataka 563101.
  • Krishna K Prasad Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Surgery, Sri Devarj Urs Medical College, Takama, Kolar Karnataka 563101.
  • Vijay P Agrawal Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Surgery, Sri Devarj Urs Medical College, Takama, Kolar Karnataka 563101.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7439/ijbr.v3i4.378

Abstract

Electrical injuries are a common occurrence and they can be very trivial or fatal depending on the voltage.Electrical current causes tissue damage by producing heat due to local tissue resistance. Sometimes patients present with visceral damage, organ perforation or pneumothorax. Pneumothorax as an immediate complication of electrical burn injury is a rare entity since, it usually develops two days after significant electrical injury. We report one such treated case of electrical burn injury with right sided pneumothorax as an immediate complication.The outlook is very good in patients who survived the initial electrical exposure and received prompt treatment of complications.

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Published

2012-05-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2012): Apr

Section

Case Report

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PNEUMOTHORAX FOLLOWING ELECTRICAL BURN INJURY: A CASE REPORT. Int Jour of Biomed Res [Internet]. 2012 May 1 [cited 2024 Oct. 18];3(4):224-5. Available from: https://ssjournals.co.in/index.php/ijbr/article/view/738